The endlessly charismatic and beautiful Vashti Bunyan has just added yet another layer to the weird and wonderful onion which is The Parts You Don’t Hear. Her legendary story and her fragile and endlessly listenable debut LP Just Another Diamond Day has a quality and a uniqueness which has seldom been touched even 45 years after its release.
After three decades in obscurity she resurfaced, spurred on by a plethora of new artists including Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom and The Animal Collective with whom she began to work with. The record, captured in December of 1969 with Jerry Boys and Joe Boyd at Sound techniques, Chelsea has become something of a lost, now found, gem and she has since become an icon for the hopeful and wandering spirit of the 60s. Vashti has also recorded two more enchanting records in the way only she can; Lookaftering and Heartleap.
A huge moment for The Parts You Don’t Hear and a brilliant day spent in Edinburgh, Vashti’s generosity in speaking to us so openly will surely help bring both our story and her own to a new generation of music lovers. Her most recent and perhaps most personal LP Heartleap is available now on Fatcat Records.
